Melissa Harrison, Ph.D

Biography

Associate Professor The Harrison Lab uses Drosophila melanogaster to understand three outstanding questions: (1) why most of the zygotic genome is not transcribed until many nuclear divisions after fertilization, (2) how a small number of genes are expressed when the remainder of the zygotic genome is not, and (3) what triggers the widespread activation of the zygotic genome at the maternal-to-zygotic transition (or MZT).